Example sentences of "[art] [det] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But early last year , when all three of the latter fell out of the running , Grachev 's way to the defence ministry was unopposed . |
| 2 | The latter lived up to their name with gusto by getting helplessly drunk , being in a celebratory mood because they 'd signed their lucrative CBS contract that very afternoon . |
| 3 | The latter came in to the same platform and so two trains were in the same section , in conflict with Rule B. |
| 4 | In 1248 Peter was in Simon 's retinue when the latter went out to Gascony as seneschal and thereafter there are numerous instances of the close connection between the two men . |
| 5 | One can only deduce that the Eurasian and African plates began driving together at this time , with the latter dragged down beneath the rising Alpine mountains . |
| 6 | The latter arose out of the interest during the Enlightenment in a ‘ science of man ’ , which would explain , scientifically , all aspects of human nature . |
| 7 | Its past activities included smuggling , lace-making and quarrying ; the latter dates back to Roman times . |
| 8 | It takes longer to saturate large rods with deuterium than to saturate the smaller ones ; the latter took up to a fortnight and they estimated that the largest rods could take up to a year . |
| 9 | John Kornjaca and Bryn Kerr , restored to the No 8 and scrum-half positions respectively , both had sound games and were well supported in the back row by Edmonds and Bisdee , the latter moving back to his preferred position on the blind side . |
| 10 | They recruit highly-paid expatriates and Mozambicans ; the latter earn up to twenty five times the salary of their colleagues in government service . |
| 11 | With every niche filled , the only option left is the update , and here Guinness have been steaming ahead yet again , the two most recent arrivals being the fifth edition of Billboard 's Book Of USA Top-40 Hits and the third edition of The Billboard Book Of Number One Hits , both bookshelf benders , the former boasting 674 pages while the latter weighs in at a hefty 844 . |
| 12 | The latter flows down towards Standish itself , where it formerly provided the power for two corn mills in fairly close proximity to one another . |
| 13 | The outer side of the algal ridge is often interrupted by a system of spurs and grooves , the latter running back through the ridge as a series of surge channels , which may even become roofed over in places by the development of Porolithon from their sides . |
| 14 | Justin first met Michael in a South London club , the former fed up with being in ‘ various no hope psychedelic funk bands ’ and the latter having just left rap mob Nasty Groove . |
| 15 | The difference between the fragmentation described by Braverman and that analysed by Stone is that the former came about in order to de-skill and control through Tayloristic practices , while the latter came about partly in order to create a range of jobs which could be formed into a job ladder . |
| 16 | I have had the former fitted up with Drawers for birds and books in hope to work going along and taking a quantity of birds with me as well as left over plates to cut up for box books etc . |
| 17 | Promotion was a further carrot , though like the former hedged round with qualifications and caveats . |
| 18 | In Numbers 11 we find the same looking back to Egypt through rose-coloured spectacles . |
| 19 | This is of flannel : the round part is plaited up to form the front , and a quilling of the bordering put on , a band of the same laid on at the back , and strings . ’ |
| 20 | discuss this with officers , the same came up over the weekend . |
| 21 | For you will learn that none of these things which are admired and sought after are of any good to those who attain them — for when they do get them , the burning heat is just as bad , there is the same tossing about on the sea , the same desire for what they do not have . |
| 22 | Quite a few wound up in the private labs in Switzerland . |
| 23 | Erm if I give you a ring about Sunday or so I will have sorted out cos I 've got quite a few to sort out at the moment . |
| 24 | She threw down the beads , and a few rolled on to the floor . |
| 25 | The archers cut them down — a few broke back for home unscathed . |
| 26 | Most nest on soda lakes on the Tibetan plateau , but a few travel on to remote high lakes in the Pamirs and Tien Shan . |
| 27 | Quite a few turned up with us , I thought , I mean I thought I would n't know anything , but no one else had read the book . |
| 28 | Some of them started to run towards the airport building , and a few knelt down on the wet tarmac . |
| 29 | OF THE OTHER NEW ‘ JAPANESE ’ SAVOY titles , a few stand out from the crowd . |
| 30 | Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube . |